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NASA Launches Psyche, a Mission to Explore a Metal Asteroid

Por: The New York Times Science October 13, 2023

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Is the asteroid Psyche really a hunk of mostly metal? Is the object, which is nearly as wide as Massachusetts, the core of a baby planet whose rocky outer layers were knocked off during a cataclysmic collision in the early days of the solar system?Right now, all that astronomers can say is maybe, maybe not.NASA launched a spacecraft on Friday morning, also named Psyche, on a journey to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to find... + full article



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